Top arms-producing companies
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Arms sales of the world’s 100 largest arms-producing and military services companies hit $420.4 billion in 2018, an increase of 4.6 percent compared with 2017, according to the SIPRI Top 100
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Top companies ranked by annual arms sales* (US$ billions)

Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter Unit cost: $82.4m
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*Excludes China due to lack of comparable and sufficiently accurate data

Lockheed Martin Corp. (U.S.) 47.26
Boeing (U.S.)  29.15
Northrop Grumman Corp. (U.S.) 26.19
Raytheon (U.S.) 23.44
General Dynamics Corp. (U.S.) 22.00
BAE Systems (UK) 21.21
Airbus Group (Europe) 11.65
BAE Systems Inc. (U.S.) 10.80
Leonardo (Italy) 9.82
Almaz-Antey (Russia)  9.64
Thales (France) 9.47
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EUROPE 27 companies $102bn  24.3%

RUSSIA 10 companies $36.2bn 8.6%

REST OF WORLD $36.2bn 8.6%

UNITED STATES 43 companies listed in Top 100
Arms sales in 2018: $246 billion Share of world total: 58.5%

20 companies
Japan (6), Israel, India, South Korea (3 each), Turkey (2), Australia, Canada and Singapore (1 each)
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Source: SIPRI Arms Industry Database, December 2019
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